Well Dressed with Umbrellas in a Stand & Tutorial

This is the 3rd card of the three masculine birthday cards I made using the Well Dressed stamp set.

A Nesting Label die was die cut and the focal images were adhered to them.

The three umbrellas, stamped in colours I picked from the DSP, were fussy cut and set aside.

One end of a Story Book Label punch cut off  to make the umbrella stamd. To decorate the vase, some DSP was adhered near the top.  The edges of this DSP was trimmed along the edges of the vase then sponged with Night of Navy .  A larger pattern was cut out from another DSP and added to the  middle of the vase.

After colouring the handle of the umbrella with a Soft Suede marker, they were placed in the stand.  Two were adhered directly to the Nesting Label die but the third was added with dimensionals.

The Night of Navy card base was layered with Crushed Curry cardstock.  At the left side is adhered some Country Club  DSP (multicoloured argyle pattern)  The Nesing Label focal point was added  to the card front using dimensionals.

Below the  Nesting Label focal point a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthday stamp and also adhered to the card front using dimensionals.

There is a free downloadable tutorial here


Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Well Dressing , Itty Birthday Birthdays
Inks:Night of Navy, Garden Green, Daffodil Delight, Real Red
Papers:  Night of Navy, Crushed Curry, Whisper White, Country Club DSP
Accessories:  Nesting Label dies, Story Book Label punch, Dimensionals

Below is a picture of all three cards

The post of the first card can be found here; the second card here.  Both posts have links to tutorials.

First card 

Second Card

Well Dressed With Shoes - with tutorial

This is the second of the 3 cards I made using the Well Dressed SAB stamp set.

Below is a picture of the 3 cards

Check yesterday’s post Here  regarding the first card. The post also includes a link to a free printable tutorial.

Card #2 is also a birthday card  and focuses on shoes.

It has a Basic Gray base layered with Basic Black, both colours that are in the plaid Country Club DSP .

Peg stamping with the Stamparatus was used to place stamp the shoe images on the art piece, which is also matted with Basic Black.

The birthday sentiment is from Itty Bitty Birthdays

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Well Dressed, Itty Bitty Birthdays
Inks:  Black Memento, Garden Green
Papers: BasicGray, Basic Black, Whisper White, Country Club DSP (Green Plaid)
Accessories:  Stamparatus

A free downloadable tutorial available here

Well Dressed Masculine card with Tutorial

I promised myself that during this COVID-19 pandemic, while I was self isolating, I make full use of the SAB stamp sets before the end of March, when SAB is over.


Last evening it was the stamp set "Well Dressed" that I used to make some Masculine birthday cards.
The 3 cards I made are pictured below:

The cards will be posted over the next 3 days.

The first card has a colour scheme of Night of Navy and Whisper White.  It was the first card I made and I was experimenting with the placement of the elements.

It has a Night of Navy card base, layered with Whisper White.  The DSP strip in the center is from the Country Club DSP.  The plaid pattern fits so perfectly with the tie. The picture doesn't show it very well, but the Whisper White layer is matted with Smokey Slate Card Stock and then added to the card base.

The stamparatus was used to stamp the images and I was happy I did as for some reason my Night of Navy was not stamping very well despite the fact I had reinked the ink pad.

The tie was die cut with the Nesting Label die and added to the card front with dimensionals.  I tried centering it on the card, but it just didn't look right, so it was off set to the left with the sentiment
centered to the right.

The hat, watch and shoe were fussy cut and placed as in the picture above- the hat and watch using dimensionals.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Well Dressed
Ink:  Night of Navy
Papers: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Country Club DSP, Smokey Slate
Accessories: Nesting Label dies, Ornate Frames, Dimensionals, Stamparatus


A free printable PDF tutorial is available here

Heartland Birthday

Happy Mother's Day everyone.
I am sitting out on the patio enjoying the early morning sunshine.  Weather predictions are "a heat wave" for the next couple of days.  Quite a change from the ice storm of 3 weeks ago.

Today's card is another masculine card - featuring the Heartland stamp set.  The images of this stamp set remind me so much of my early roots on Canada.  My family's first placement in this country was on a farm.

I sometimes wonder what I ever did without the Stamparatus.  It seems I am using it to stamp almost everything, mainly because of the clear, crisp images I getting.

The image of the barn was no exception.  After stamping it with Black Memento in, I coloured it using diluted Brusho crystals and an Aqua painter., and did a light wash on the sky and foreground.  Some Clear Wink of Stella on parts of the building really brightened it up.

Oval framelits were used to die cut and mat this art piece and they were adhered together using dimensionals after sponging the edges with Soft Suede ink.

Although the base card is Soft suede layered with Plank embossed Whisper White, I chose to mat the art piece oval with Chocolate Chip card stock.  The DSP is Soft Suede matted with Soft Suede card stock.

The sentiment is from "Better Together" and this die cut oval was added to the card front using dimensionals.

Supplies Used: 

Stamps:  Heartland, Better Together

Inks:  Black Memento, Soft Suede, Brusho Crystals

Papers:  Soft Suede, Whisper White, Soft Suede DSP, Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Plank Embossing Folder, Layering Oval Framelits, Dimensionals, Clear Wink of Stella, Aqua painter, Stamparatus

Born to Ride - Mainly Masculine #175

It's always good to have masculine birthday cards on hand and the challenge at SU Only challenges this week is "mainly Masculine".

This is the first time I have used this Motorcycle stamp set, yet it is such a great masculine set and it makes a wonderful birthday or other event card.

As my son pointed out I inadvertently used the colors of a well known motor cycle dealership - black and orange. However, that was not my intent.

The image of the motorcycle was stamped with Black Memento onto Whisper White.  Some road dirt was stamped beneath it , and then it was punched with the 2 1/2" circle punch. 

The base card is a top fold Basic Black card layered with Sahara Sand, and then a .retired DSP that  looks like a road map.

The die cut motorcycle was placed along the left edge with part of the circle over the edge.  This was trimmed off.

The sentiment was stamped with Black Memento, and the "journey" was stamped again on Pumpkin Pie card stock. This was punched out using the Badge punch.  The word stamped on Pumpkin Pie card stock was cut out and placed on the original sentiment using half dimensionals. I also trimmed the edge off the punchie.  I punched another Pumpkin Pie Badge punchie, and this was adhered to the original one.  This was adhered to the card front using dimensionals.

Finally, the banner and sentiment was stamped on to Pumpkin Pie card stock and die cut using  the banner framelit.

I also stamped the "route 66" stamp on Cucumber Crush card stock, cut it out and adhered it on one of the lines that could be a road.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Born to Ride

Inks:  Black Memento

Papers:  Basic Black, Sahara Sand, DSP (retired), Pumpkin Pie, Cucumber Crush

Accessories: 1 1/2" circle punch, Badge punch, dimensionals, Bunch of Banners Framelits